Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 22, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-1140
CVE-2018-1140
Description
A missing input sanitization flaw was found in the implementation of LDP database used for the LDAP server. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service against a samba server, used as a Active Directory Domain Controller. All versions of Samba from 4.8.0 onwards are vulnerable
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Affected products
6- Range: >=4.8.0
- osv-coords4 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/ldb&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/samba&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/samba&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Availability%20Extension%2015pkg:rpm/suse/samba&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015
< 2.3.0-1.3+ 3 more
- (no CPE)range: < 2.3.0-1.3
- (no CPE)range: < 4.14.6+git.182.2205d5224e3-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.7.8+git.86.94b6d10f7dd-4.15.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.7.8+git.86.94b6d10f7dd-4.15.1
- The Samba Team/sambav5Range: 4.8.0 and newer
Patches
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References
6- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
- bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
- www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2018-1140.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/105082nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180814-0001/nvdThird Party Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-52nvd
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